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When attempting to uninstall programs on a Windows Vista or Windows 7 PC, I'd been getting a 1730 error which claimed that I needed to be an administrator to uninstall the program.

One problem: I am an administrator.

According to this post, the problem is our old friend, the User Account Control (UAC).  It needs to be turned down to a minimum, then the machine reboots, then I could uninstall the programs normally.

I'm still a fan of the UAC -- it's helped me a few times to navigate away from a web page that was trying to install something I didn't want -- but this is somewhat annoying. :) ​

Category: Malware; Security; Windows Client OS
Published: 3/5/2011 9:28 AM
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